Re: [PLUG] Hotswappable Disk Drives?

[Jeff Dean <jdean@ieee.org>]

I do that frequently.  My old desktop's main disk is SCSI, but I purchased 
(used) a bunch of those removable IDE thingies and use them on on 
/dev/hda.  I can mount hda as I please provided it was live when the BIOS 
scanned the IDE drives.  If the drive wasn't there at boot time I can't 
mount it later.  I have three identical IDE drives that I can hot swap - 
umount, spin down, swap, spin up, mount.  Works like a charm.

The shuttles I'm using have no brand name on them, and they're certainly 
not industrial equipment, but they work fine with the ata/33 drives I'm using.

jd

At 10:18 PM 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> I am looking into using hot swappable disk drives as an inexpensive
> way to back up.  Has anyone had any experience using removable drive
> kits such as the KWI KF21-IPF?  How does Linux tolerate hot swapping?
> Any recommendations on brands?  Anything I should know before I sink a
> couple of hundred bucks into this scheme?
> TIA,
> Ed Goppelt


Jeff Dean
jdean@ieee.org


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